Deutsch und Dänisch im Vergleich: Die Verwendung des Ausrufezeichens
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Irene Simonsen
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate German native speakers’ use of exclamation marks in L2 Danish texts by comparing their use to that of Danish and German native speakers respectively. The comparison thus aims to identify points of attention in L2 Danish writing. Writing skills in a foreign language include not only lexical, grammatical and textual knowledge, but also knowledge of the sociopragmatics in the foreign language. The norm-adequate use of the exclamation mark appears to embody such knowledge in several respects. As part of the exclamation as a rhetorical device, the exclamation mark serves to increase intensity in the text and accentuate the writer’s emotional involvement in his text. At the same time, the exclamation mark also influences and affects the recipient. It thus has the function of an interactive sign. Based on a comparison of the standards in the two language systems and on speech act theory, the use of the sign is examined in e-mails and commentaries. The study shows that the use of the sign is genre dependent and that the L2 writers overuse the sign in the expressive and evaluative acts of expressing thanks and approval in the e-mails. In terms of didactic implications, the study draws attention to the formulaic language used in the co-text of the exclamation mark.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate German native speakers’ use of exclamation marks in L2 Danish texts by comparing their use to that of Danish and German native speakers respectively. The comparison thus aims to identify points of attention in L2 Danish writing. Writing skills in a foreign language include not only lexical, grammatical and textual knowledge, but also knowledge of the sociopragmatics in the foreign language. The norm-adequate use of the exclamation mark appears to embody such knowledge in several respects. As part of the exclamation as a rhetorical device, the exclamation mark serves to increase intensity in the text and accentuate the writer’s emotional involvement in his text. At the same time, the exclamation mark also influences and affects the recipient. It thus has the function of an interactive sign. Based on a comparison of the standards in the two language systems and on speech act theory, the use of the sign is examined in e-mails and commentaries. The study shows that the use of the sign is genre dependent and that the L2 writers overuse the sign in the expressive and evaluative acts of expressing thanks and approval in the e-mails. In terms of didactic implications, the study draws attention to the formulaic language used in the co-text of the exclamation mark.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort V
- Preface VII
- Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents IX
- Einleitung XIII
- Introduction XXIII
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System
- Zur Kommasetzung im Deutschen 3
- ‹/›, ‹,› und ‹,› – Variation und Wandel in der Entwicklung der Kommas im 17. und 18. Jh. aus graph(emat)ischer Perspektive 25
- Das Komma in kontrastiver Perspektive Italienisch–Deutsch 57
- Punctuation Principles in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic Printed Works of the Croatian Protestant Printing Press in Urach (1561–1564) 73
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Norm
- Isolating the Syntactic Factor in Non-Standard Punctuation 91
- Vom genormten Satzbau zur genormten Interpunktion 109
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Gebrauch/Use
- Textsegmentierung in Handschrift und Frühdruck 137
- Interpunktion in historischen Patientenbriefen 163
- Japanische Interpunktion im Wandel der Zeit 187
- An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Chinese Readers’ Perception of Sentence Boundaries in Mandarin 215
- The Colon in English, German and Swedish: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study 237
- Comparing Word Marks 263
- The Ellipsis and the Dash in Italian and English: A Contrastive Perspective 289
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Erwerb/Acquisition
- Interpunktion – (K)ein Thema für Deutsch als Fremdsprache? 317
- Deutsch und Dänisch im Vergleich: Die Verwendung des Ausrufezeichens 343
- Zur Kommasetzung italienischer DaF-Lernender 369
- Sachregister/Index 397
- Interpunktionszeichenregister/Index of Punctuation Marks 407
- Adressen/Addresses 413
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort V
- Preface VII
- Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents IX
- Einleitung XIII
- Introduction XXIII
-
System
- Zur Kommasetzung im Deutschen 3
- ‹/›, ‹,› und ‹,› – Variation und Wandel in der Entwicklung der Kommas im 17. und 18. Jh. aus graph(emat)ischer Perspektive 25
- Das Komma in kontrastiver Perspektive Italienisch–Deutsch 57
- Punctuation Principles in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic Printed Works of the Croatian Protestant Printing Press in Urach (1561–1564) 73
-
Norm
- Isolating the Syntactic Factor in Non-Standard Punctuation 91
- Vom genormten Satzbau zur genormten Interpunktion 109
-
Gebrauch/Use
- Textsegmentierung in Handschrift und Frühdruck 137
- Interpunktion in historischen Patientenbriefen 163
- Japanische Interpunktion im Wandel der Zeit 187
- An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Chinese Readers’ Perception of Sentence Boundaries in Mandarin 215
- The Colon in English, German and Swedish: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study 237
- Comparing Word Marks 263
- The Ellipsis and the Dash in Italian and English: A Contrastive Perspective 289
-
Erwerb/Acquisition
- Interpunktion – (K)ein Thema für Deutsch als Fremdsprache? 317
- Deutsch und Dänisch im Vergleich: Die Verwendung des Ausrufezeichens 343
- Zur Kommasetzung italienischer DaF-Lernender 369
- Sachregister/Index 397
- Interpunktionszeichenregister/Index of Punctuation Marks 407
- Adressen/Addresses 413
